aroused - Story 8078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text read: “I swear I just saw you at the grocery store!” He felt a rush, a sudden tightening in his chest. He stood up, pacing back and forth in his small apartment, a nervous energy building inside him. The late-night chats with Kevin, the shared jokes, the intimate conversations… they were no longer just pixels on a screen.

He stopped, taking a deep breath. His palms were clammy. He wanted to see him. Needed to. He looked around his apartment, suddenly unable to focus on anything. The air felt charged, electric. He grabbed his keys and headed toward the door.

Emotion: aroused

Cluster: Alertness

PC1 (Valence): -0.45 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.13

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion aroused. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 aroused stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the aroused emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the aroused vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.386
`S`	0.383
`P`	0.379
`own`	0.376
`悸`	0.344

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.877
`l`	-0.501
`de`	-0.474
`que`	-0.438
`been`	-0.384